Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 July 1880 — INDIANA. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA.

Jim Smith was killed by the cam at Plymouth Sunday. A fire in Liberty, recently, destroyed property to the amount of *8,500. Jim Thomas, an old toper of Goshen, died in jail in that place from too much spree. E D. Braden, of Indianapolis, made a run ot 21 mile* in leas than 9% hours on a bicycle. Mrs. Borders, a few miles south of Ku’livan, was sun-struck during the hot days last week. <. A great deal of building is going on at New Albany and the prospect is for a. boom this fail. The Wabash river caused considerable damage from* 'big rise” recently in Sullivan county. Sheriff Amos W. Crozier, of Osgood, jumped irom a window Bunday, and was seriously kjured. The statistics of LaGrange county, show 2,515 acres of land brought under cultivation for crops of 1880. ' Miss Lizzie Woods, near Madison, while suffering from spasm, upset a pot of hot coffee, terribly Maiding herself. The ladies of the First Presbyterian Church of South Bend presented Remenyi with a handsome gold watch and chain. Alf Winihger, a young man of 18, committed suicide near Shoals, a few days ago, caused from mental derangement, superinduced by sickness. > The boot and shoe store of Bteinfleld & Co., at Etna Gre&i, was burglarized and nearly the whole stock carried away. The firm estimate their loss at *9OO. bonth Bend rejoices in the fact that during the past ten years the population ot the enterprising city has nearly doubled, the census giying it 18,880, a gain of 6,124.

Dr. Hills, of Covington, suicided by shooting. He was sheading physician in that locality for the past 20 years. 11l health and consequent depression the cause: The population of Muncie, according to the census just completed, is 5,212. In 1870 the population was 2,920, which gives the city an increase of 72 per cent, during the last ten years. At Logansport, George Early, a Panhandle switchman, was severely injured in the leg by an exploding torped®, which had been carelessly or maliciously laid on one of the rails of a side track.

An old man named Woodard, engineer at the Richmond chair works, fell from an outside stairway, a distance of fifteen feet. The fall produced concussion of the brain, from which he has since died. The Jeffersonville plate glass-works have put in a new furnace. This improvement will give an increased facility of from four to five hundred feet per day. A new polishing table has beenput in which will polish a plate of glass in four hours. At Vallonia, Frank, an eleven year old son of Samuel Hunsucker, while passing a horse in his father’s stable, was kicked by the animal from behind. The fiont >art of his upper jaw was fractured on both sides and other serious injuries sustained. During the storm on the evening of the 24th ult. the lightning stsuck a beech tree on the farm of William Heron, south*of Connersville, and killed sixteen fine; sheep. About the ' same time a fine cow on the farm of William Hanson was served in m the same way. Secretary Thompson arrived at Terra Haute on the Brd inst, from Washington, and immediately proceeded to his farm' Spring Hill, four miles from the city’, w £® r ® wrnain about ten days,aftet which he will leave for California to inspect the navy yard on the eoast.

A few evening ago James Smith, while drunk and carousing around the Plymouth depot, attempted te climb across a moving ™* f «»• ?• jUppied and fell between r he W u^. B ’.? nd feet were both severed A grand competitive drill came off at Evansville on the 3rd inst., the competing the P«er Rifles, of Nash vide,the'McKean Cadets, of Terre Haute, and the Evansville rifles. The first prize, Ptter »he secon2 * ** McKean Cadets, HUe rifle? Pril *’ * lo °’ Evanß ‘ Depredations of horse thieves and burglars have again broken out in Tippecanoe county, and indeed in the adjoining counties. Mr. Cason, a fanner, who lives west of Lafayette, in Wabash township, Saturday night went to his pasture later than usual and discovered that some one .° n L of . flne “hnals, and hitched it to the fence near the gate. The next morning he found two sets of harness belonging to a neighbor lying in the field near where the animal had been hitched.

At Mt Vernon, a few days ago, James Baker and William Shed became involved in a quarrel at the house of a notorious prostitute by the name of Eliza Sloat, laker went out in the street to talk to Reed, when hot words were indulged in first, then blows. Reed struck Baker with a large knife. Baker thereupon knocked him down, and, in attempting to take the knife from Reed, Baker received three cr four fearful cuts in the breast severing an artery, which terminated his life in less than five minutes, Capt James R. Southard, of the Sherman Guards, of Frankfort, Indiana, is perfecting arrangements for a grand reunion of the Tenth Indiana volunteer Infantrv to take place in that city September 16 and W. He has secured SOOstands of arms and two pieces of artillery to be used in a sham battle. The Indianapolis Light Infantry and drum corps, the grand army of the republic, German veterans, and the Union band from that city will be m attendance, and the veterans are cordially invited to be present. J